Colin Charvis has been around long enough to realise the impressive opening RBS 6 Nations Championship 23-10 victory against Scotland does not constitute a Welsh rugby revival.

The national team skipper readily acknowledges there is still a long way to go to restore the game in Wales to its former glory, and that Ireland in Dublin on Sunday will prove a far bigger examination than that posed by an unfamiliar Scotland side just starting its regeneration under new coach Matt Williams.

"The real test is going to be whether we can put in another performance a week later. We are renowned for playing well one week and then falling apart the next," admitted Charvis.

"Ireland have had a defeat in Paris and I am sure they will be desperate to avenge that.

"Playing them at Lansdowne Road is always very difficult, but as long as we analyse what went wrong and what went well for us here, work hard and have a good week of training, we can then build from there."

Charvis insists the Welsh players are certainly not getting carried away following their win at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

"There is no chance that a lackadaisical attitude will fall into our camp or that we will get over-confident," the Wales captain maintained.

"We have got to live up to the expectations we have hung on ourselves. We had a good performance in the World Cup and have won this match, but that is by no means what we are going to settle for.

"We have worked very hard for a very long time and we want to build on that."

Despite some thrilling, attacking rugby which produced three excellent touchdowns, Charvis maintains there is still plenty of room for improvement on Wales' first opening-day Six Nations victory since 1997.

The mediocre Scots fought their way back into the game in the final 20 minutes and the captain said: "There is analysis to be done on the game. I would say there were a couple of times we made some pretty basic errors, but all in all we are pretty pleased.

"We kept them down to one try and we scored three of our own which is a pretty good standard in international football.

"They got their try right at the end which shows the tenacious nature of Scottish players, but we had got a good start and gradually built our innings.

"Now we have got an eight-day break which enables both ourselves and Ireland to lick our wounds," said Charvis, who expects no problems from his own wound, a gashed finger which required stitches.

Victory has given Wales a platform for the rest of the campaign, but Charvis insisted: "I am sure that by the end of the tournament we will know our level, but at the moment we just want to keep getting better."